Is anyone else starting to become a bit worried? mod note in first post

BrokenArrows · 02-03-2018 11:52AM

Bob24 wrote: »

No update here for a while.

There was decent recovery especially for bitcoin and also a few other major crypto since this thread was started .... but it hasn't reached the previous high and seems to be running out of steam.

What do people see coming next?

My portfolio recovered a lot but has gradually slipped back significantly in the past 2 weeks.

NANO is the only thing which is continuing to recover, everything else is big into the red.

Blacktie. · 02-03-2018 12:03PM

Monero is looking good. Was there news i missed?

ballyharpat · 02-03-2018 12:38PM

I stopped commenting or even figuring out what I thought could happen when it broke the 10k mark 2 weeks ago- I didn’t think it would.

I can’t see it being worth the price it is, but it is still valuable, just like oil is probably worth $80 per barrel, but was up to 140 a few years ago, driven by speculators rather than value.

I Can’t even say what I think bitcoin would be worth, as there are so many other Cryptocurrency that are similar and can do the same thing.

But I am sure there is still money to be made speculating at it.

FWIW

Whelo79 · 02-03-2018 04:55PM

Blacktie. wrote: »

Monero is looking good. Was there news i missed?

Hardfork coming up soon.

smacl · 02-03-2018 08:02PM

Bob24 wrote: »

What do people see coming next?

Slightly more steady growth from solutions that successfully transition from concept to delivering real world value and decline and collapse for those that don't. I think the corrections we're seeing are positive even if they aren't good for short term speculation.

lifeandtimes · 02-03-2018 08:40PM

My portofilia stayed above 20% profit through out the last 4- 6 weeks and I took advantage of buying more coins last night in the one im heavily involved in as the dip was too cheap not too and now it's up 20%. So I'm pretty happy

Manic Moran · 03-03-2018 06:39AM

I'm still running a bit of a theoretical profit (about 130%), and I have no plans to use any of my money for at least another five or six months. So, I'm just HODLing, in the hope of some climb somewhere between then and now. I figure that if it ever approaches 85% of where it was before, I'll start drawing it out, unless it looks like another sudden meteoric rise as happened last year (Most of my assets are ZEC, not BCH, ZEC sort of shot up one day when I was sleeping, apparently.)

grindle · 03-03-2018 08:41AM

Manic Moran wrote: »

I figure that if it ever approaches 85% of where it was before, I'll start drawing it out

Do you take part in any ICOs?

10% of your holdings placed into a good ICO can quickly turn into 30-90% of your holdings. If not quickly then usually within 6 months if it's a good non-scamcoin, the token has an actual use and the devs weren't excessively greedy - a rarity these days.

Mr Bloat · 07-03-2018 06:14PM

Tinder Surprise wrote: »

Somethings stirring on Binance....

Early reports are a whale account got hacked and all alt coins sold at market rate to BTC then to Monero.

It seen crazy prices on a few Alt coins this afternoon.

Let's hope that's the case and not a hack, cause I find it hard to believe a whale account with the alleged monies involved had not got two way ath activated

This thread has been pretty quiet of late, I assume because the market was doing well. I'm looking forward to all the naysayers resurfacing in light of the current drop...

BrokenArrows · 07-03-2018 06:35PM

Mr Bloat wrote: »

This thread has been pretty quiet of late, I assume because the market was doing well. I'm looking forward to all the naysayers resurfacing in light of the current drop...

Well there is not much point in being worried when the market is doing well!!

What has just happened though. Every single coin and token has simultaneously plummeted!

JohnnyFlash · 07-03-2018 06:41PM

Mr Bloat wrote: »

This thread has been pretty quiet of late, I assume because the market was doing well. I'm looking forward to all the naysayers resurfacing in light of the current drop...

I've been reading it occasionally, and I'm definitely a skeptic. That said, I don't want to piss on anyone's parade. Losing real money buying virtual coins isn't nice, without there being this mistaken assumption that people are gloating over it. I think a skeptic thread, like on the reddit crypto forum would be a good idea. There's very valid reasons to be skeptical of this entire space, and it would keep it out of the other threads.

What says everyone?

lostboy75 · 07-03-2018 06:50PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

a skeptic thread,

If I'm not mistaken this thread was created fur that purpose, but skeptic as such, but more open to debate
https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057831539/4/#post106080546

DVD-Lots · 07-03-2018 06:55PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Well there is not much point in being worried when the market is doing well!!

What has just happened though. Every single coin and token has simultaneously plummeted!

Binance "hack" apparently. People who used API's for bots without 2FA, all their ALT's got sold for BTC then traded for VIA, which shot up. All over Reddit. :rolleyes:

Withdrawls now suspended as they are working on it.

h0neybadger · 07-03-2018 06:58PM

Hate to sound calous, but I’m delighted. Idiots using bot’s to trade their Crypto deserve mistakes like this to happen.

I sincerely hope Binance don’t resolve it unless it’s an issue with their website.

If the bot just messed up, and good.

BrokenArrows · 07-03-2018 07:10PM

It's crazy how much influence exchanges have over price.

Tinder Surprise · 07-03-2018 07:15PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

It's crazy how much influence exchanges have over price.

Binance is a juggernaut.

Believe it or not I can't see them banning bots.

Bots create trades - Exchanges get paid via trades.

smacl · 07-03-2018 07:19PM

h0neybadger wrote: »

Idiots using bot’s to trade their Crypto deserve mistakes like this to happen.

Why so? If you're playing a numbers to buy and sell that you can adequately describe as an algorithm what's the issue with automating your trades and using an API rather than using a GUI? I would have thought your time would be better spent optimising your trading parameters based on the market as you see it rather than faffing about with a GUI to make individual trades.

JohnnyFlash · 07-03-2018 07:23PM

The volume of tether being traded today is off the chart. It has a market cap of 2.2billion, but the trading volume for today alone is 2.8 billion.

rapul · 07-03-2018 07:38PM

Good time to buy on the cheap I guess!

GarIT · 07-03-2018 08:56PM

h0neybadger wrote: »

Idiots using bot’s to trade their Crypto deserve mistakes like this to happen.

If the bot just messed up, and good.

70% of all trading in everything other than crypto is done by bots it's nothing unique.

WhiteMemento9 · 07-03-2018 09:18PM

rapul wrote: »

Good time to buy on the cheap I guess!

There is still another 180k BTC to get dumped on the market from the Mt. Gov trustee articles.

rapul · 07-03-2018 09:34PM

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

There is still another 180k BTC to get dumped on the market from the Mt. Gov trustee articles.

Cheers for that holmes,I shall hold off so.

Elessar · 07-03-2018 10:36PM

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

There is still another 180k BTC to get dumped on the market from the Mt. Gov trustee articles.

They may not do that, at least not straight away. From what I understand the BTC sold thus far provided enough $$$ to pay off the Mt.Gox creditors. As this falls under court proceedings & trustees, it's up to the them to decide what to do next, but they can't just dump it without court approval - they've gotten the money they need. They may distribute the remaining BTC.

This could actually be a silver lining - at least we know the cause of the massive drops over the last few months. Maybe the regular whales don't have as much power as we thought.

EDIT: Court decisions can take years. Now that we know what caused the january crash and there's going to be no more huge dumping BTC is free to seriously soar again. Might take a while to stabilise though.

WhiteMemento9 · 07-03-2018 10:50PM

Elessar wrote: »

They may not do that, at least not straight away. From what I understand the BTC sold thus far provided enough $$$ to pay off the Mt.Gox creditors. As this falls under court proceedings & trustees, it's up to the them to decide what to do next, but they can't just dump it without court approval - they've gotten the money they need. They may distribute the remaining BTC.

This could actually be a silver lining - at least we know the cause of the massive drops over the last few months. Maybe the regular whales don't have as much power as we thought.

EDIT: Court decisions can take years. Now that we know what caused the january crash and there's going to be no more huge dumping BTC is free to seriously soar again. Might take a while to stabilise though.

It has certainly shown the resilience of BTC. To think how well the market held up while this dumping was happening is a huge point of note. Mental to think if this hasn't been ongoing where these markets would currently sit. Crashing the market by selling in this way when you still have so much behind has to be one of the stupidest things anyone has ever done.

Edit - Still not happy having money in the market while the uncertainly remains around what is going to happen with the remaining funds.

Manic Moran · 08-03-2018 06:37AM

grindle wrote: »

Manic Moran wrote: »

I figure that if it ever approaches 85% of where it was before, I'll start drawing it out

Do you take part in any ICOs?

10% of your holdings placed into a good ICO can quickly turn into 30-90% of your holdings. If not quickly then usually within 6 months if it's a good non-scamcoin, the token has an actual use and the devs weren't excessively greedy - a rarity these days.

I’m quite willing to, but most of the time I find out about them too late. I’m more a lackadaisical investor. The one time I found about about one in time that seemed worthwhile, it was only open to UK/Ireland, for some reason.

grindle · 08-03-2018 10:16AM

Manic Moran wrote: »

I’m quite willing to, but most of the time I find out about them too late. I’m more a lackadaisical investor. The one time I found about about one in time that seemed worthwhile, it was only open to UK/Ireland, for some reason.

People living in the US (you're in California?) aren't supposed to be entering ICOs for possible securities because it adds a cost to those tokens, but if you tell fibs and use a VPN for KYC you still can. It's not illegal for you to do, it's just illegal for the service to offer the product to the US without playing by the SEC's rules.

Depends on what you find and your risk tolerance but one thing I'd suggest to everybody is to whitelist for anything that looks even slightly promising whether you intend to enter or not. Very possible for hype to build in the meantime.

hots · 08-03-2018 11:45AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The volume of tether being traded today is off the chart. It has a market cap of 2.2billion, but the trading volume for today alone is 2.8 billion.

I would imagine a lot of that was triggered by Binance stopping withdrawals and a lot of people wanting to sit in fiat while it was getting sorted?

makeorbrake · 08-03-2018 01:33PM

hots wrote: »

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The volume of tether being traded today is off the chart. It has a market cap of 2.2billion, but the trading volume for today alone is 2.8 billion.

I would imagine a lot of that was triggered by Binance stopping withdrawals and a lot of people wanting to sit in fiat while it was getting sorted?

Surely it's too risky to be using Tether?

Manic Moran · 08-03-2018 06:17PM

grindle wrote: »

People living in the US (you're in California?) aren't supposed to be entering ICOs for possible securities because it adds a cost to those tokens, but if you tell fibs and use a VPN for KYC you still can. It's not illegal for you to do, it's just illegal for the service to offer the product to the US without playing by the SEC's rules.

Well, I still have an Irish mailing address...

However, it's probably not overly safe for me to do so. I read the above, and took that to read "You can still get into an ICO for a coin named "KYC"". Only after doing some digging did I have my lightbulb moment. Probably indicates my level of knowledge.

lifeandtimes · 08-03-2018 06:17PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

Well, I still have an Irish mailing address...

However, it's probably not overly safe for me to do so. I read the above, and took that to read "You can still get into an ICO for a coin named "KYC"". Only after doing some digging did I have my lightbulb moment. Probably indicates my level of knowledge.

Morgan by name, Moran by nature?

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